Community Forum

Interestingly, God's first recorded commitment to the renewed earth is a rhythm: seedtime and harvest will not cease. This is a covenant of cycles, not chaos.

Now, for many out there, they can relate with financial seasons feeling unpredictable. Even for business people, they experience markets shift, industries getting disrupted, and even ventures rise and fall. But underneath the volatility, Scripture insists on an unbroken rhythm: what is sown will eventually meet its harvest season.

The cycle does not stop, dear reader.

I want to encourage someone out there today who has sown diligently (be it time, skill, capital, integrity, etc,.) into a venture that has not yet yielded visible fruit. Our verse up there should be your anchor.

Seedtime is real, but so is harvest, and God has bound Himself to the continuation of that rhythm for as long as the earth remains.

*Prayers/Confessions* Lord, I trust the rhythm You established, that what I have sown will meet its harvest season. Strengthen me to keep sowing even when the harvest feels delayed. In Jesus' name, Amen.

*Further Reading:* Galatians 6:9; Psalm 126:5-6 *1-Year Bible Reading Plan:* Jeremiah 9-11; Galatians 4

You fell into this before. You know how it ends. You remember the shame, the distance from God, the broken trust, the consequences that followed. And yet, in the moment of temptation, amnesia descends: somehow this time feels different, somehow the outcome seems like it might be different, somehow the memory of last time has faded.

This is not accidental. The enemy is invested in your forgetting. His strategy depends on your inability to clearly connect present temptation to past consequence.

Fight spiritual amnesia deliberately: keep a journal of significant moments in your purity journey — falls and their consequences, victories and what made them possible, prayers answered, and God's faithfulness shown. Read it regularly. Refresh your memory intentionally.

When temptation presents itself as though you have never been here before, remind yourself that you have. Recall specifically what followed. Do not allow the romantic amnesia of temptation to make you forget what experience has already taught you.

Memory is a form of wisdom. Maintain it deliberately.

*Confession:* I acknowledge that sex is a sacred act, designed by God for divine purposes. By His grace, I will honor and uphold its sanctity. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

But whether you count cash in a bank, trade on the stock market, flip burgers at a takeaway shop, whip up pasta specials at a five-star restaurant, fell giant timber in the forest, or split and deliver firewood, coach a team, pastor a congregation, publish bestselling books, deliver newspapers in

the early morning hours, star in your own television show, farm a large acreage, mow and edge neighbourhood lawns, go out on the road as a salesperson for computers, drive a truck loaded with machinery, build homes, clean swimming pools, argue cases before a judge, or settle family disputes as

a counsellor, always do a good job.

A wise man once said: “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” The biblical character Daniel did that. And like cream, he rose to the top in Babylon. “Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3 KJV).

No task is insignificant when doing it faithfully for the Lord.

The Bible says: “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper” (Proverbs 13:4 NLT). So always do a good job.

So far, the population of the world is 8 billion. The world has existed for 20 centuries and may still exist for another 5000 years. If you multiple 8 billion people in each generation by 105, it's assumed that around 840 billion or more people will exist on this planet.

Out of this population, only about 0.5 percent or less will receive salvation. So let's assume that the people who received salvation from when the world started till it ended are 10 million people, are we trying to say that the remaining billions will burn in hell?

I learnt from some teachings that hell is too large and can contain almost any size but what I don't understand is how God will intend to move such number of creatures to burn in hell forever

This is urgent! If you want Jesus to make you a candidate of heaven, kindly say this genuinely and in faith:

"Lord Jesus Christ, please I am sorry for all my sins, please forgive me all my sins now and come into my life now in Jesus name. Amen"

If you have said this prayer genuinely and in faith, you are now born again. Please read your bible and pray everyday. Also attend a good church.

"He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD" (Proverbs 19:17); "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35); Christ gave us the greatest example of generosity by giving Himself (2 Corinthians 8:9).

How selfishness manifests: always wanting to receive but rarely giving; spending everything on personal desires while ignoring genuine needs; refusing to help when you can; giving only when expecting something in return; believing generosity will make you poor.

A selfish heart asks "What will I gain?"; a generous heart asks "Who can I bless?" Generosity must work with wisdom (2 Corinthians 8:12) - not giving recklessly or neglecting family responsibilities.

Illustration: two men earn the same; one says "when I become rich, I will help others," the other gives as he goes - if you wait until you are rich to learn generosity, you may become rich in possessions but poor in character.

Prayer for a generous heart and wisdom in giving. Written by Pastor Olanrewaju G. L., Christ Leads Assembly Church, Ibadan.

"O Allah, if I did that seeking only Your pleasure, relieve us from this difficulty" - and the rock moved a little. The second man mentioned how he once had the opportunity to commit a sinful act with a woman, but when she reminded him to fear Allah, he walked away - and the rock moved further.

The third man mentioned how he had kept a worker's wages in trust, invested the money, and when the worker returned gave him everything it had grown - and the rock moved completely, and they walked out.

None of their deeds were performed for an audience; they simply did good when only Allah knew.

So ask yourself: what good deed do you have that only Allah knows about? Do not underestimate these deeds - perhaps one day, facing a difficulty no human can solve, a sincere deed you almost forgot may become the means through which Allah opens a door for you. May Allah make our hidden deeds better than our public deeds.